the top ten movies in north america

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- Following are ticket sales for the top 10 movies
at the North American box office for the April 15-17 weekend, according to
studio estimates issued Sunday. Final data will be issued Monday.

[***] 1 (+) Rio ............................. $40.0 million   40.0 million
[***] 2 (+) Scream 4 ........................ $19.3 million   19.3 million
[***] 3 (1) Hop ............................. $11.2 million   82.6 million
[***] 4 (4) Soul Surfer ...................... $7.4 million   20.0 million
[***] 5 (2) Hanna ............................ $7.3 million   23.3 million
[***] 6-(3) Arthur ........................... $6.9 million   22.3 million
[***] 6-(5) Insidious ........................ $6.9 million   36.0 million
[***] 8 (7) Source Code ...................... $6.3 million   37.0 million
       9-(+) The Conspirator .................. $3.9 million    3.9 million
[***] 9-(6) Your Highness .................... $3.9 million   16.0 million

NOTE: Last weekend's position in parenthesis. + indicates a new release.
Figures are rounded.

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FWIW, Scream 4 had easily the smallest opening of the series since the 
original Scream came out in 1996.  Scream made $6.4 million in its first 
weekend but made *more* money than that in its next four weekends, and it 
basically stayed afloat until it grossed $103 million overall.  Scream 2 
opened to $32.9 million in 1997 and grossed $101.4 million overall, while 
Scream 3 opened to $34.7 million in 2000 and grossed $89.1 million 
overall.  (All figures domestic; each of the previous Scream films made 
another $70 million to $72.7 million overseas, as well.)

FWIW, Wes Craven's top-grossing non-Scream movie is Red Eye (2005, $57.9 
million), and it's doubtful Scream 4 will make even *that* much.

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http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org/film-fans-head-rio-shrug-over-new-scream-ap

LOS ANGELES - Movie fans are going to "Rio" in big numbers, but they're 
not quite screaming over the latest installment of a horror-comedy 
franchise.

The 20th Century Fox animated family flick "Rio," featuring the voices of 
Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg, led the weekend box office with a 
healthy $40 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.

It was the best debut so far this year, topping another animated comedy, 
"Rango," by about $2 million.

The slasher comedy "Scream 4," released by the Weinstein Co. banner 
Dimension Films, opened at No. 2 with just $19.3 million. That's a 
fraction of the business for the previous two sequels, which both debuted 
at over $30 million more than a decade ago.

Business finally climbed for Hollywood, which has been in a prolonged 
slide. Revenues rose for only the second time since last November, coming 
in at $134 million, up 12 percent compared to the same weekend last year, 
when "Kick-Ass" led with $19.8 million.

"I'm going to be so bold as to say this may be the beginning of the 
turnaround," said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for 
Hollywood.com. "Summer's almost here and it's the most important 
movie-going season. It couldn't be coming at a better time."

After two weekends in the No. 1 spot, Russell Brand's Easter bunny tale 
"Hop" slipped to third-place with $11.2 million. Released by Universal, 
"Hop" raised its total to $82.6 million.

The weekend's other new wider release, director Robert Redford's 
Lincoln-assassination drama "The Conspirator," premiered at No. 9 with 
$3.9 million. The movie stars Robin Wright and James McAvoy in a courtroom 
tale of a woman accused of aiding Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth.

Released by Roadside Attractions, "The Conspirator" played in narrower 
release of 707 theaters, roughly one-fifth the cinema count for the 
weekend's top three movies.

"Rio" opened well above Fox studio expectations. A tale of romance and 
smuggling involving rare birds, "Rio" opened overseas a week earlier and 
has climbed to a $168 million total worldwide.

"It's working in every country on the planet," said Fox distribution 
executive Bert Livingston. "It's G-rated, which means it's for everybody."

With many children out of school over the next week leading into Easter, 
"Rio" has solid playing time ahead of it, Livingston said.

Receipts for "Scream 4" came in a bit under industry expectations and well 
below the $30-million-plus openings for "Scream 2" and "Scream 3."

"Would we have liked to have done more? Yeah, absolutely, but I don't 
think anyone was expecting $30 million," said Erik Lomis, head of 
distribution for the Weinstein Co. "But I think it's a solid opening, 
particularly given how the films have been performing lately in the 
marketplace. R-rated films have been having a tougher time."

"Scream 4" reunites the stars of the original three movies -- Neve 
Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette -- and adds new young cast 
members including Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere and Rory Culkin.

The movie hurls the cast into a fresh blood fest as bodies pile up in a 
manner mimicking events of the first movie.

An 11-year hiatus since "Scream 3" may have created a disconnect between 
the franchise and the typically young horror crowd. Just 54 percent of the 
audience was under 25, a segment that typically accounts for about 75 
percent of horror fans, Lomis said.

Weinstein executives are hoping word of mouth among those younger viewers 
will bring in new fans and carry the movie along in the coming weeks. 
That's what happened with the original "Scream," which opened with just 
$6.4 million in 1996 but became a $100 million word-of-mouth hit.

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http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.reuters.com/rio-flies-high-worldwide-box-offices-reuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Moviegoers around the world headed to "Rio" for 
the weekend.

The 3D animated misadventure of a Brazilian macaw opened at No. 1 in North 
America after selling about $40 million worth of tickets, and it led the 
field overseas for a second weekend, distributor 20th Century Fox said on 
Sunday.

The $90 million cartoon scored the biggest opening of the year in North 
America, and came in at the high end of expectations in the $30 million to 
$40 million range. Its foreign total rose to about $128 million.

The cartoon revolves around Blu, a rare blue macaw (voiced by Jesse 
Eisenberg of "The Social Network"), who returns to his native Brazil after 
a coddled existence as a smuggled pet in the United States.

It was directed by Carlos Saldanha, the Rio de Janeiro-born director of 
the "Ice Age" trilogy. Both those films and "Rio" were produced by Blue 
Sky Studios, and distributed by News Corp-owned Fox.

Opening at No. 2 in North America with considerably less success was 
"Scream 4," the first installment in the horror franchise in 11 years.

The Dimension Films release sold about $19.3 million worth of tickets 
across the United States and Canada. Industry insiders had expected the 
bloody reunion of David Arquette, Courteney Cox and Neve Campbell to open 
in the mid-$20 million range. Dimension is a unit of the closely held 
Weinstein Co.

After two weekends at No. 1, Universal Pictures' Easter bunny cartoon 
"Hop" slipped to No. 3 with $11.2 million. Its total stands at $82.6 
million. Universal is a unit of NBC Universal, which is controlled by 
Comcast Corp.

(Reporting by Dean Goodman; Editing by Laura MacInnis)

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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2011&p=.htm

The Domestic Top 10 of 2011 (as of April 17, 2011)

[***] 1  (1) Rango (PG)                                     $118.8 million
[***] 2  (2) Just Go with It (PG-13)                        $102.3 million
[***] 3  (3) The Green Hornet (PG-13)                        $98.7 million
[***] 4  (4) Gnomeo and Juliet (G)                           $97.4 million
[***] 5  (8) Hop (PG)                                        $82.6 million
[***] 6  (5) Battle: Los Angeles (PG-13)                     $82.2 million
       7  (6) Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (G)              $72.8 million
[***] 8  (7) No Strings Attached (R)                         $70.7 million
[***] 9  (9) Limitless (PG-13)                               $69.7 million
[***] 10(10) Unknown (PG-13)                                 $63.2 million

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2011&p=.htm

The Worldwide Top 10 of 2011 (as of April 17, 2011)

[***] 1  Rango (PG)                          118.8 + 115.5 = 234.3 million
[***] 2  The Green Hornet (PG-13)             98.7 + 129.5 = 228.2 million
[***] 3  Just Go with It (PG-13)             102.3 +  97.0 = 199.3 million
[***] 4  Battle: Los Angeles (PG-13)          82.2 + 110.7 = 192.9 million
[***] 5  Gnomeo and Juliet (G)                97.4 +  78.0 = 175.4 million
[***] 6  Rio (G)                              40.0 + 128.2 = 168.2 million
[***] 7  No Strings Attached (R)              70.7 +  73.9 = 144.6 million
[***] 8  I Am Number Four (PG-13)             54.1 +  74.2 = 128.3 million
[***] 9  Unknown (PG-13)                      63.2 +  51.2 = 114.4 million
[***] 10 Hop (PG)                             82.6 +  29.4 = 112.0 million

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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/domestic/

The Domestic Top 10 of All Time (as of April 17, 2011)

[*2*] 1  Avatar (2009)                                      $760.5 million
[*2*] 2  Titanic (1997)                                     $600.8 million
[***] 3  The Dark Knight (2008)                             $533.3 million
[*7*] 4  Star Wars (1977)                                   $461.0 million
[***] 5  Shrek 2 (2004)                                     $441.2 million
[*4*] 6  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)                  $435.1 million
[*3*] 7  Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)   $431.1 million
[***] 8  Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)  $423.3 million
[***] 9  Toy Story 3 (2010)                                 $415.0 million
[*2*] 10 Spider-Man (2002)                                  $403.7 million

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/

The Worldwide Top 10 of All Time (as of April 17, 2011)

[*2*] 1  Avatar (2009)                     760.5 + 2021.7 = 2782.2 million
[*2*] 2  Titanic (1997)                    600.8 + 1242.4 = 1843.2 million
[*4*] 3  The Lord of the Rings: ... (2003) 377.0 +  742.1 = 1119.1 million
[***] 4  Pirates of the ... Chest (2006)   423.3 +  642.9 = 1066.2 million
[***] 5  Toy Story 3 (2010)                415.0 +  648.2 = 1063.2 million
[***] 6  Alice in Wonderland (2010)        334.2 +  690.1 = 1024.3 million
[***] 7  The Dark Knight (2008)            533.3 +  468.6 = 1001.9 million
[*2*] 8  Harry Potter and the ... (2001)   317.6 +  657.2 =  974.7 million
[***] 9  Pirates of the ... End (2007)     309.4 +  651.6 =  961.0 million
[***] 10 Harry Potter and the ... (2010)   295.0 +  657.2 =  952.2 million

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